People Of The Renaissance

Op-Ed: The Online Dating Renaissance

I was a late bloomer in matters of technology—I only joined the 400 million (give or take a few) Facebook users on the planet six months ago and I still despise text messaging, although I know better now than to make a statement as bold as “I’ll never [insert technological verb, ie. ‘sext’],” as I don’t like being wrong about myself, and, despite daily advancements in not only technology but knowledge in general, the future is still undecipherable. What isn’t mysterious are the statistics: the U.S. government earned $957 million in revenue from online dating in 2008, and, according to the Harper’s magazine Index, there is now a one in four chance that an American couple who met after 2007 made their first exchanges online. Top dating sites like Match.com or eHarmony sort through potential matches by asking questions about education (university or college?), physical appearance (slim or well-built?), hobbies (tennis or cinema?), employment ( Toronto accountant or entrepreneur?), etc., as well as personality tests. When I was in high school, we used to run a ‘Matchmaker’ service on Valentine’s Day to raise money for the school band. It was an exhilarating thing for students—over 90% of the student body participated—and I would know, I was in the band. For $2 we were asked to answer about forty icebreaker questions and then wait a couple days to read our (hopefully) favourable results. But the results were always disappointing—I didn’t even know most of my suggested matches, and the ones I did know I felt no chemistry towards and am pretty sure the feeling was mutual—we subsequently avoided each other for the remainder of high school. Certainly my friends and siblings were equally disappointed and perplexed with their suggested matches. Since I’ve never tried an online dating service I know I have no right to dismiss the lot as shallow or ineffective, but I wonder, if the results were so off the mark in my high school matchmaking service (with less than a thousand participants) how could internet dating, which plucks matches out of a much larger pool of information (and not by IT staff with ephemeris in hand, but by computer), be much better? “You should reinvent your image with attention to all seven components of image simultaneously as you look for companionship and love with someone very desirable, someone you may have felt incapable of meeting previously.

Living A Simple Renaissance: We The Foodie People...Week 3: China

Yup...with all of the 32 pie wedding chaos that went on, on realized that we had only actually eaten in our own home three nights that week! :( Such a sad discovery...especially since I had salmon marinating in the refrigerator for one of our B.I. meals. So, we decided to eat one more course before heading off into the land of rice and sesame oil. YUM! I really do like salmon, especially when it's been grilled. For our very last meal in the British Isles we enjoyed Grilled Salmon with a Whiskey Butter sauce, Grilled Whiskey Beets, and Cheese Fritters over fresh garden greens...and yes, the greens were fresh and they came from our garden! After this meal, we both decided that we liked whiskey better in desserts...so we made Sourdough Bread Pudding with a Caramel Whiskey sauce. The next day we found ourselves in China, which meat rice for dinner almost every night. Ben had a few requests this week, so after finding recipes for those, I set about to find other recipes that were all different. I was thrilled to discover that the Chinese people love garlic! Towards the end of our week in the British Isles, I was very tempted to throw some garlic into our meals...but I resisted the temptation to ensure that I was keeping the recipes as authentic as possible. When I cut into my first clove of garlic last week, I savored the smell and jumped up and down when I saw that the recipe called for not only one garlic clove, but FOUR!!! This was another meal that forced me to ignore my dislike of certain flavors. During those long weeks of morning sickness, I consumed one too many ginger supplements, and even though ginger was one of my all-time favorite things to eat before getting pregnant, I have a hard time with it now. It's very sad, and I'm trying to get over it... So, aside from the ginger flavor in this meal, I really did enjoy the Stir Fry Ginger Beef. It had a unique combination of flavors...fresh cilantro, a slight taste of honey, the heat from the peppers, and the subtle hint of ginger. For our last meal in China, we had some Chow Mein. Neither of us had tried Beef Chow Mein before. I always thought it was made with chicken. This was an authentic recipe, however, and Ben said that it tasted more like the Chow Mein he had at a non-Americanized Chinese restaurant that he's been to. Chow Mein is one of Ben's favorite Chinese dishes, which is why I saved it for the end. It's always fun to go out with a big bang.

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somehow got sucked into watching game of thrones before my flight. this is for the same people who go to Renaissance fairs, right?

Lots of people maintain that the best period in the Middle East history is the Islamic renaissance

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